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title: Nodeinfo: GS uses a different link
author: notabug.org/aab
time: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:52:03 UTC
status: closed
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author: notabug.org
time: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:52:03 UTC
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Comparing nodeinfo in GS, Mastodon and Pleroma gives this: https://gnusocial.net/api/nodeinfo/2.0.json https://mastodon.social/nodeinfo/2.0.json https://pleroma.libretux.com/nodeinfo/2.0.json In GS there is an extra "api". Don't know if this is needed by design... Maybe implementing it in the same way as Mastodon and Pleroma would help to establish a standard way?
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author: notabug.org
time: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:02:44 UTC
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It isn't needed by design, but it was in fact a design choice :) The standard way is to check `/.well-known/nodeinfo` as in [https://gnusocial.net/.well-known/nodeinfo](https://gnusocial.net/.well-known/nodeinfo). Also, we aren't the only deciding to put nodeinfo under `/api/`, Pixelfed did the same, as seen in: [https://pixelfed.social/api/nodeinfo/2.0.json](https://pixelfed.social/api/nodeinfo/2.0.json).
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